Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1980
ISBN 10: 0140021795 ISBN 13: 9780140021790
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: very light wear to the extremities; the mildest rubbing to the wrapper covers; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing light wear only. If no longer 'fresh', remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.35 x 0.7 inches). 316 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6.5 ounces. First Edition Thus (1964) , Fourteenth Printing (1980). The hardcover edition was first published in 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Mordecai Richler (1931 2001) was a Canadian writer, best known for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He wrote repeatedly about the Anglophone community of Montreal and especially about his former neighbourhood, portraying it in multiple novels, including Richler published his fourth novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, in 1959. The book featured a frequent Richler theme: Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s in the neighbourhood of Montreal east of Mount Royal Park on and about St. Urbain Street and Saint Laurent Boulevard (known colloquially as "The Main"). Richler wrote of the neighbourhood and its people, chronicling the hardships and disabilities they faced as a Jewish minority: "To a middle-class stranger, it is true, one street would have seemed as squalid as the next. On each corner a cigar store, a grocery, and a fruit man. Outside staircases everywhere. Winding ones, wooden ones, rusty and risky ones. Here a prized lot of grass splendidly barbered, there a spitefully weedy patch. An endless repetition of precious peeling balconies and waste lots making the occasional gap here and there." First Edition Thus (1964) , Fourteenth Printing (1980). The hardcover edition was first published in 1959.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1978
Seller: Kadriin Blackwell, Greensville, ON, Canada
First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. Goldsmith, James (illustrator). First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Light reading crease by spine.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140093028 ISBN 13: 9780140093025
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light shelf wear, slight fxing to edges of reading block. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Helen MacKenzie. ; The Salem Novels; 240 pages; The second of the Salem novels set in a not too distant future with both Canada and the USA in a state of civil disorder, with food and fuel shortages, corrupt governmet and troops patrolling the streets. In this world of unpredictability Theodr Beam sets out on a train journey from Vancouver to Salem, Ontario. His mind flooded by childhood memories and experiences, wavering between past and present, fantasy and reality, innocence and corruption.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140093036 ISBN 13: 9780140093032
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light shelf wear, paper starting to tone at edges. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Helen MacKenzie. ; The Salem Novels; Vol. 1; 256 pages; The first of the Salem novels, a family saga set on a farm in the fictional community of Salem, Ontario. Detailling the conflict between an older generation firmly rooted in the reality of the soil and nature with the younger one, who've exiled themselves from the land, but have become disinherited and rootless in the process.
Published by Viking / Penguin Books Canada Ltd, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1987
ISBN 10: 0670807486 ISBN 13: 9780670807482
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Large 8vo. (12) 337 (3) pp, illus. First Edition (Canadian), 1987. Price clipped. Faintly rubbed bottom edge boards, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.75" x 9.5". Green and off-white cloth with green lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1981
ISBN 10: 0140058915 ISBN 13: 9780140058918
Seller: Mister-Seekers Bookstore, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. With Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ His wife away for the first time, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two adolescents while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. This is the husband's story now found in Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Dick Barnard (illustrator). Recipes for fruit, vegetables, herbs. Chapters about preserving, wine-making, making and using yoghurt, baking and freezing produce. TIght binding. No chips, tears or written inscriptions. Some light wear to covers including a quarter-size patch of surface paper loss on front cover. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 266 pp.
Published by Penguin Books Canada Ltd, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1983
ISBN 10: 0140068465 ISBN 13: 9780140068467
Seller: Samuel S Lin, Etobicoke, ON, Canada
Signed
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. 7th Printing. 282 pages. An unread copy. Signed on the title page. Signed by Author.
Published by Penguin Books Canada., Markham, Ontario, 1985
ISBN 10: 0140466878 ISBN 13: 9780140466874
Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing in card covers with coil binding. 160 pp. Illustrations, index. Small store stamp on rear of front cover otherwise Fine.
Published by Markham, Ontario. Viking, Penguin Books Canada Ltd
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. 1986. 8vo. 22cm, first edition, 222p., fine in near fine jacket (S1) These thirteen short stories, introduced by the author, range in style from stark realism to fantasy.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1980
ISBN 10: 0140040005 ISBN 13: 9780140040005
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. An unread copy, pages lightly tanned. In this collection of thirteen short stories Doris Lessing offers a study of humanity: from a tale of adultery in Not a Very Nice Story to an analysis of self-doubt in The Temptation of Jack Orkney.
Published by Markham, Ontario, Viking Kestrel/Penguin Books Canada 1986., 1986
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Very fine in very fine dustjacket. Colour illustrations by the author, for story set around Niagra Falls in the early 1900s. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $3, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140114254 ISBN 13: 9780140114256
Seller: BYTOWN BOOKERY, Vars, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Trade Paperback, scuffing, with edgewear. Tightly bound, clean copy. Crease on bottom of back cover. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 269 pages.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1987
ISBN 10: 014005510X ISBN 13: 9780140055108
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Cover has small price sticker scar, pages tanned. 4 X 7" 233 pages. Sir Roy Vandervane, elderly English composer-conductor, combines the roles of eternal lecher and incurable progressive. His foil and mistress is the appalling 17-year-old Sylvia, representing in her repulsive person all that is least attractive in contemporary youth.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1974
ISBN 10: 014046171X ISBN 13: 9780140461718
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Cover has spine crease, edgewear, pages have tanned and pages 86 to 89 have moisture wrinkles, otherwise clean and well bound. 4 X 7" 272 pages, from 1974. Kenneth Lo outlines the philosophy and practice of Chinese cooking from quick stir-frying to hot assembly and describes the various Chinese meals - banquets, family meals or tea-house snacks. The second part provides a guide with detailed recipes to the dishes to be had in restaurants outside of China, and in the third part Lo covers the four quarters of China and the four seasons of the year in an intriguing introduction to the classic and indigenous fare of the country, which is significantly different from that met in the west. Kenneth Lo is the founder of the Chinese Gourmet Club of London.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1975
ISBN 10: 0140039848 ISBN 13: 9780140039849
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). Pages lightly tanned, cover has creases, black line on bottom edge, otherwise without flaw. 4 X 7" 280 pages. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. A many-angled portrait of the most poetical novelist of this last century builds up here in the recollections of her friends and contemporaries. E.M. Forster remembers her curiosity and her honesty; Louie Mayer, who cooked for the Woolf's for 30-years, recalls how she talked to herself in the bath and baked perfect bread.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, Markham, Ontario, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140105360 ISBN 13: 9780140105360
Seller: BYTOWN BOOKERY, Vars, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Trade Paperback with wear to the cover edges and spine hinges. Clean & bright interior with a solid binding. In very good condition. "One of Canada's most respected historians and critics provides a social history of Canada from the native people through the "primary exploiters", who include fishermen, fur traders, miners, soldiers and settlers, through World War I and II to the Quebec and Canada of today. " ; Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1982
ISBN 10: 014006270X ISBN 13: 9780140062700
Seller: BYTOWN BOOKERY, Vars, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Trade Paperback. Black background with gold lettering on cover, edgwear, corners slightly turned, pages clean, but browned. The first book in the Cornish series. "Robertson Davies uses his magical touch to weave together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder, and scholarship at a modern university. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 326 pages.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1984
ISBN 10: 0140060669 ISBN 13: 9780140060669
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Vintage Photos (illustrator). Reprint. Cover has creases, pages tanned, otherwise clean and well bound. Margaret Fountaine was a country clergyman's daughter, born in 1862. Rejecting her conventional upbringing and being in possession of a modest private income, she set out on a 'wild and fearless' life which took her all over the world. Her diaries are sometimes sad, often funny, and always fascinating. Men whom dear Mamma would have called most unsuitable fell for her and she describes them all.
First edition. An octavo-size paperback original. Fine in an added clear archival jacket for this copy. Selected stories.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1974
ISBN 10: 0140461507 ISBN 13: 9780140461503
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. JOHN TRIBE (illustrator). Reprint. Pages have tanned, front cover has slight shelf wear, otherwise without flaw. 4 X 7" 171 pages. From 1974. Here, as ever, Robin McDouall is unfailingly expert and urbane. Whether marinating or poaching, you will be surprised at the delicious number of ways you can use up that last inch of wine.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1987
ISBN 10: 0140089578 ISBN 13: 9780140089578
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. A very nice unread copy. 4 X 7" 233 pages. From 1987. Horace Rumpole unbowed by nearly fifty years knocking around the hallowed courts of justice, the icy winds blowing from 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' and an overdraft bursting at the seams, reveals more of the splendors and miseries of life as an Old Bailey hack.
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140089683 ISBN 13: 9780140089684
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A very nice copy. John Mortimer's compelling and funny novel unveils the foibles and passions of an astonishing array of characters, and unfolds a vivid panorama of English life from 1945 on, revealing just why paradise is always postponed.
Published by Penguin Books Canada Limited, Markham, Ontario, 1982
ISBN 10: 0905649540 ISBN 13: 9780905649542
Seller: BYTOWN BOOKERY, Vars, ON, Canada
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Navy blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, minor bump on spine edges. Many wonderful and interesting pictures of all the Royal children from the time of Queen Victoria 1847, to the birth of Prince Williams 1982. Includes the "Royal Ancestry", "The Shakespeare Connection", "Bibliography", & Index. DJ is a glossy silver, unclipped, missing a piece at the bottom of the front cover by the flap, edgwear. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 207 pages.
Published by Penguin Books Canada, Markham, Ontario, 1990
ISBN 10: 0670834815 ISBN 13: 9780670834815
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ with small corner crease to top of front fly, spine corners lightly bumped and rubbed with some shelf wear to base of boards. ; First edition, first printing with full number line. Grey cloth boards quarter bound printed brown with white lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. DJ photo by Gregg Eligh. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Photographs; 408 pages; An account of a case that shook the foundations of the Roman Catholic community on Newfoundland by the editor of the newspaper that first broke the story. A case that exposed the child molestation done by the Christian Brothers at the Mount Cashel Orphanage and the scandal of an official cover-up between the Justice Department and the Christian Brothers that led to a royal commission.
Published by Penguin Books Canada, Markham Ontario, 1987
ISBN 10: 0670819026 ISBN 13: 9780670819027
Seller: Letters Bookshop, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Frances Broomfield (illustrator). 144pp; gilt black cloth, jacket (unclipped & unpriced); 222 x 145 x 17 mm. Canadian issue of the British Penguin sheets (ISBN on copyright page: 0140104593), with Viking imprint & variant ISBN on rear panel of jacket. A tight unread copy in a bright jacket; however the upper corner of the front board has been creased.
Published by Viking Canada/Penguin Books Canada, Limited, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1988
ISBN 10: 0670816493 ISBN 13: 9780670816491
Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. The book is inscribed and signed by the author on the blank page opposite the full title page. The book is near fine with slight edge wear in a near fine dust jacket with very slight edge wear. Signed by Author(s).
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Published by Penguin Books, [Markham, Ontario], 1987
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. This paperbound printing was probably preceded by a small hardbound printing with Viking imprint on title page. The author's first book. "Twenty stories and character studies by a Scottish-born Canadian writer, many filed with images of the grotesque and macabre . The title story is the narrative of a man whose job is to periodically look in on six prisoners, each of whom has been hidden away in a subterranean vault for a strange crime or trait that sets him apart from the rest of society . In 'The Festival," a man and a woman observe and eventually participate in the increasingly menacing events at the annual festival in a nearby town. 'Eckhardt at the Window' is a metaphysical mystery . in which a police inspector's investigation of a murder he cannot solve leads to self-examination and difficult acceptance of a world view that does not admit the inexplicable." - Stefan Dziemianowicz, Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-270. "That Eric McCormack can roar with Canada's literary lions comes as no surprise to those who have been (uneasily) following his career since the publication of his first book, INSPECING THE VAULTS (Penguin, 1987) . one of the finest single-author collections Canada has ever produced." - Cliff Burns, Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature #28 (1998), p 12. A fine copy. (#3553).
Published by Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 1984
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Light edge-wear and light foxing to top of text block, otherwise a good clean copy. Signed by Spider Robinson on the title page.
Published by Viking (Penguin Books), Markham, Ontario, 1988
ISBN 10: 0670821861 ISBN 13: 9780670821860
Seller: The Devonport Vintage Bookshop, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fitzharris, Tim (illustrator). 200pp, full colour photographs. Almost like new. Light foxing on prelims. A beautiful book. Enclosed in cardboard packing wrapper that it would have been packed in when new.